"Exploring Proxima Centauri's Planet with the Extremely Large Telescope"

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) could potentially detect biosignatures in the reflected light of Proxima Centauri B, the closest exoplanet to Earth, using the High Angular Resolution Monolithic Optical and Near-infrared Integral field spectrograph (HARMONI) to capture high-resolution spectra. While the exoplanet doesn't transit its star, the study suggests that by using masks to block the central brilliance of the star, it may be possible to capture the light of the exoplanet and discover biogenic molecules, offering a new method for searching for alien life.